Lisa

“Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.”
― James Baldwin

“Certain kinds of beauty make people weep, the moments “when hope and history rhyme,”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

“We're all bastards. That's why we need our friends.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“What a great difference there is,' she said, 'between dreaming of something and dealing with it!”
― James Baldwin, Another Country